Social worker Shelby Daniels stated at about 10:15 AM in a treatment plan review on May 15, 2024, that her patient, Ethan, was said by CP staff to be "overly fixated on working out." This is a negative characterization which could arguably imply (and in this case was probably meant to imply) some mental illness or personality disorder, or even a potential danger to the therapeutic milieu or the community.
The first problem with such (laughable) "professional mental health expertise" is that CP staff means any one of several people, and we don't know who. The second problem is that we don't know how fixated is overly fixated. The third problem is that we don't know what fixated even means. Thus, if such a casual, probably speculative comment by an unknown person ends up in a medical chart as a pretended "clinical observation" reported as if under oath, it becomes very poor, unreliable, prejudicial, and possibly perjured "evidence" indeed!
The forensic mental health system thereby discredits itself and endangers the reputations of those medical and legal professionals who work in it, supposedly to help patients and serve justice. It also (needless to say!) pisses off the patient and his lawyers.
But this is exactly what staff at all of Illinois' state-operated psychiatric facilities do, day-in and day-out: they rumor-monger and natter about people they don't like, and pretend they know something about mental health which makes them worth their salaries. They are ignorant, mean people who sponge off the taxpayers and deliver no value whatsoever to society. They are my enemies, and I must do my best to love them.
In this case. Ethan told me that Shelby let it slip when he queried who said he was overly fixated on working out, that the comment was in some email. Shelby probably just wanted to disavow having spoken to any real individual. Ethan then came back and asked who sent the email. Shelby said she didn't know, she didn't remember who sent it, it was just a big, long email which incidentally included that comment among lots of other stuff.
Hmmm. That is plausible. But it certainly raises more questions!
Will Shelby Daniels, or the person who sent the email, or some IDHS information technology manager or custodian, delete that email at some point in time? Shouldn't it be preserved as evidence? After all, the report, or the opinion or whatever it was, came up in a monthly treatment plan review for a patient, apparently as relevant clinical information. If evidence is destroyed or tampered with, that could become a serious due process issue.
Or alternatively, if this "Ethan is overly fixated..." is just an unimportant bit in a mass of information that's part of routine traffic, why did Shelby mention it prominently at the start of a monthly review?
My guess is that the "treatment" team just doesn't like Ethan, and they instinctively feel like they have to discredit him. I don't think he takes meds (that would certainly prejudice Dr. Cash against him!), and he's very recalcitrant about sucking up, admiring or even respecting the plantation overseers. He just doesn't want to be a slave.
This is a wonderful situation to watch, top-drawer entertainment! These oh-so-superior people (Cash, Daniels, et al.) will founder, perhaps dramatically, on the rock of somebody (Ethan or any other high-functioning and reasonably honest NGRI patient) who patiently and intelligently refuses to bow down and tell the lies they want him to tell.
I will help Ethan get out of Packard; but the longer he's there, the more it might benefit my own prospects... to "burn Atlanta and march to the sea." War is hell, right?
Psychiatria delenda est!
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